There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
– Horace
With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)
– Horace
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
– Horace
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
– Horace
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
– Horace
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
– Horace
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
– Horace
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
– Horace
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
– Horace
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
– Horace
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
– Horace
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
– Horace
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
– Horace
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
– Horace
There is measure in all things.
– Horace
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
– Horace
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
– Horace
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
– Horace
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
– Horace
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
– Horace
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
– Horace
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
– Horace
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.